Prisma raises $4.5M seed round led by Kleiner Perkins

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the round, with participation from a number of angel investors, many of whom have deep roots in the developer and/or open source space,
In a brief call yesterday, Prisma co-founder and CEO Johannes Schickling confirmed the investment and explained that the startup sought to
offering has to take a bottom up approach in order to become adopted by the wider developer community.To that end, Schickling tells me
describes as the GraphQL data layer for all databases, in recognition that modern backends typically combine and connect to multiple
specialised databases e.g
Postgres, Elasticsearch, Redis, Neo4j etc
Prisma wants you to be able to access all of your databases in a single GraphQL query.Schickling says the new funding will be used to
bolster the team, including opening an office in San Francisco in addition to its Berlin engineering base
On the product roadmap is support for more databases
source product, it offers Prisma Enterprise to enable critical security workflows (compliance, access control, audit logging etc.) and
HashiCorp, Couchbase, InfluxData), John Komkov (Fathom Capital), Augusto Marietti (CEO Kong), Guillermo Rauch (CEO Zeit), Spencer Kimball
(CEO CockroachDB), and Nicholas Dessaigne (CEO Algolia).